THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT SITUATION, FROM A FRIEND:

The instructive thing about the rising gas prices and rampant inflation, the shocking Afghanistan debacle, the never-ending state of pandemic crisis, etc., for today’s neophyte and myopic older voters, is that elections have consequences. Much as the Palestinians learned after they voted in Hamas in the mid-2000s. An election doesn’t end with that feel-good vote that everyone was exhorting everyone else to cast. (Or with the stuffing of ballot boxes, I have to add in this case).

All of this was not only foreseeable, but foreseen — though I will confess things are going to Hell faster than even I expected.